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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four, College—The Ghost of False Hope.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do Mel and Lyla kiss for the first time?
(a) On Lyla's 21st birthday.
(b) On Mel's 21st birthday.
(c) After the marriage ceremony of Lyla's sister.
(d) On a small boat.

2. What does Ted confess to Mel one night?
(a) He is attracted to the minister.
(b) He is thinking of killing himself.
(c) He wants a divorce because he's gay.
(d) He feels attracted to Mel.

3. What does the seminarian say about masturbation?
(a) It is best to wait until one is married for sexual pleasure.
(b) It is always wrong.
(c) The preacher does not bring up the topic.
(d) It is a gift from God.

4. How does Mel describe his father?
(a) An agnostic.
(b) A kind, gentle giant.
(c) A self-made man.
(d) An aggressive but wise man.

5. Who dies ten years after he kisses Mel?
(a) Mel's best friend in high school.
(b) The Roman Catholic priest.
(c) Mel's second cousin who was gay.
(d) Gordon H.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mel describe Noni?

2. What does Lyla insist that Mel and she attend despite Mel's parents' objection?

3. Noni fights the war between ____________.

4. In what is Lyla totally uninterested?

5. Who is Mel's second boyhood male crush?

(see the answer key)

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